Gênero nos jogos digitais históricos: imagens, representações e possibilidades para o ensino de História

Abstract

The present seeks to point out the importance of historical digital games in the interest and knowledge of History by students, the relationship of this relatively new media with historical culture and the Teaching of History, and to present a critique of representations, which can be considered masculinists in these games. With this in mind, I present a study on what I call historical digital games as a specific area of knowledge - beyond the field of traditional game studies-, with its own demands and methodologies. Understanding digital games as an area that lacks criticism of how these games favor the historical experience of white, heterosexual and middle-class men, I seek to understand the possibilities of contributions of historical digital games to the teaching of history. Finally, I analyze, from a gender perspective, the representations of women in the digital game Total War: Three Kingdom (Creative Assembly, 2019).